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H. J ETTER;

CORSET PASTENING.

Patented May 19, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HEINRICH JETTER, OF GPPINGEN, VVRTEMBERG, GERMANY.

CORSET-FASTENiNG.

SIJECIFICFTIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 318,119, dated May 19, 1885.

Application filed January 7, ISES.

.To LZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HEINRICH JETTER, of Gppingen, Kingdom of Wrtemberg, Germany, have invented a certain new and useful Corset-Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

My invention rela-tes to certain improvements in fastenings for stay-busks and other articles of dress, whereby such fastenings may be very readily detached from the articles of dress and replaced thereon, as required.

In carrying out this invention the busks or steels are provided with rectangular openings therein at suitable distances apart, according to the number of fastenings to be applied thereto, similar openings correspondingtherewith being formed also in the plait or fold of the corset or other article of dress to which the busks and fastenings will be fitted.

The fastening consists of a stud or button piece and a clasp of the kind usually enr ployed; but instead of being permanently attached to the busk or steel, as heretofore, these improved fastenings are constructed in such a manner that they may be readily applied thereto when the busks are in place within the plait or fold of the corset, and may be as readily removed therefrom when desired.

'Ihe fastening-pieces are cut or stamped ont of sheet metal, and are formed at one end into a rectangular loop or eye. At the other end, however, one fastening is provided with a button or stud, and the other-that is, the clasp piece-is provided with a slotted eyeletopening to receive the stud. The fasteningpieces thus constructed are attached to the busk or steel by means of the rectangular loop or eye, said loop or eye being inserted through the openings provided in the busk for the purpose, and the fastenings are secured therein by athin strip of flat steel being passed up beneath the busk or steel Within the plait or fold of the corset, and through the loops of the fastening-pieces contained therein, so holding them firmly in place. When it is required to remove the fastenings, the thin strip of steel is drawn out of the fold or plait, and the fasteng-pieces can be immediately taken oft or be as readily replaced.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a front view of two pieces of iiat steel or of two busks partly broken off, said busks (No model.)

or steels connected by buttonfastenings, said fastenings being secured to the busks by means of narrow strips of steel. Fig. 2 represents the back view of the same, and Fig. 3 a crosssection. Fig. 4 represents the under side of part of a corset joined by means of fastenings secured to the busks by my improved method, the busks and fastenings shown being of somewhat diiferent shape than those shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

Similar letters of reference in different figures indicate similar parts.

In Figs. l, 2, and 3, c and b represent fastening-pieces of the well-known button-andeye type. Said fastening-pieces are constructed in a peculiar manner, so as to be easily inserted into or removed from the busks or dat steel strips which are worn in corsets and similar articles of dress. As may be easily seen from Fig. 3, said fastening-pieces, which may be punched out of any sheet metal, are bent at one end into a rectangular loop, as b and c', and this loop is inserted through corresponding holes provided in a flat strip of metal, as, for instance, steel. This strip of metal, marked with a, may be of any desirable shape serving the purpose, its object being when inserted into a corresponding plait of the corset, besides stiftening the same, to put an even strain on the fabric when the corset is buttoned. In order to retain the fastening-pieces within these strips a, narrow strips of steel, as d, are pushed on the back side of the pieces a through theinserted loops of the fastening -pieces b and c. In order to facilitate the exchange of said fastenings, and also of the strips a, and, of course, also of d, the plait at the end of the corset is provided with slots f and f', the width of which corresponds to the width of the pieces a, (see Fig. 4), and at the places where the fastenings b and c are the corset is cut out in rectangular recesses, as e, only for convenience sake.

For shape of pieces a, as given in Fig. 4, the operation of exchanging the fasteningpieces is done as follows: The corset being provided with the rectangular cut-outs e, and With the upper narrow and the lower wide slots,ff, all as shown, the pieces d are pulled out through the lower slots, and the fasteningpieces b and c may be easily pulled out from the square holes within the strips or sheets c IOO a, whereupon the said strips may also be taken out by first pushing the upper narrow ends for a certain distance out through the upper slotsf, until the Wider ends come up to the wider slots. Pieces a may then be easily pulled out through said wider slots f, and a new set of strips and fastenings may be inserted into the corset.

I do not limit myself to the use of the fastenings, as shown7 of the button-and-eye type; but fastenings of any equivalent type may be provided with my mode of securing to the corset'or other article of dress. Y

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is- Y.

l. rlhe combination, substantially as shown and described7 with dat strips of metal, as a, of fastening-pieces, (button and eye pieces,) as b and c, provided with rcctangularly-bent loops as, b and c', which are fitted into and inserted through corresponding holes provided in the said metal strips, and of the metal strips, as d, .the latter pushed through the said loops of fastening-pieces, all for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with removable busks, as ce, of a corset provided with plaits which have slots, asf and f, and cut-outs, as e, the fastening-pieces, as b and c, with rectangular loops, as b and c', said loops fitted into corresponding holes in said busks, and the removable strips of metal, as d, inserted on the back side of said busks through said loops of the fastening-pieces, all for the purpose set forth, and substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto sign my naine, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 3d day of December, 1884.

HEINRICH JETTER.

Vitnesses:

EDUARD RETTICK, TH. WENHEIM. 

